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    Luke Hohmann

    CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER

    Co-Founder of Applied Frameworks, Luke is a successful serial entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and practicing agilist. He's extremely proud of his decades of service in the Agile community, helping individuals and companies realize sustainable success. 

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    Luke originally founded what has become Applied Frameworks, Inc. in 2003. After publishing Innovation Games in 2006, he started Conteneo, a collaboration software company which was acquired by Scaled Agile in 2019. While at Scaled Agile, Luke served as a SAFe® Framework Contributor and Principal Consultant, with significant contributions to the SAFe Agile Product Management (APM) and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competencies and the SAFe POPM, APM, and LPM courses.

    His books include Software Profit Streams (co-written with Jason Tanner) (2023), Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play (2006), Beyond Software Architecture (2003) and Journey of the Software Professional (1996).

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    Luke helped co-organize the first Agile conference in 2003, has served on the Board of the Agile Alliance, and, in partnership with the Scrum Alliance, produced the Collaboration at Scale webinar series, which focused on helping organizations with 10 or more Scrum teams in 2 or more locations scale agility.

    Luke is a highly sought after speaker and has keynoted such conferences as the Agile Alliance conference, Agile Australia, Lean-Agile Scotland, Agile New Zealand, the Austrian Innovation Forum, the CXPA and multiple SAFe Summits.

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    Luke is the co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and nonprofit organizations collaboratively solve problems that are unsolvable without civic engagement. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through Budget Games. In partnership with The Kettering Foundation, Conteneo created Common Ground for Action, the first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making, which is now owned and managed by EVEF.

    Luke graduated magna cum laude with a BSE in computer engineering and a MSE in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior.

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